Examples of household taste . ework can be put is well illustrated bythe exhibition made by the Royal School of Art Needlework, of give three examples on page 95. The first of these is an Ottoman Cover,embroidered in a very delicate flower- and leaf-pattern after a manner whichis a favorite one among the pupils of the School. This consists of copyingthe leaves and flowers in color and veining with careful exactness, and at thesame time conventionalizing their general arrangement to allow of the repetitionof the design as part of one pattern. The second piece is a Cabinet with a figur
Examples of household taste . ework can be put is well illustrated bythe exhibition made by the Royal School of Art Needlework, of give three examples on page 95. The first of these is an Ottoman Cover,embroidered in a very delicate flower- and leaf-pattern after a manner whichis a favorite one among the pupils of the School. This consists of copyingthe leaves and flowers in color and veining with careful exactness, and at thesame time conventionalizing their general arrangement to allow of the repetitionof the design as part of one pattern. The second piece is a Cabinet with a figure-subject, also embroidered—the design evidently the work of an artist, probably Crane himself. Work ofthis character requires long practice and skill with the needle, as well asinstruction by competent individuals. But the general result is so satisfactory, INDUSTRIAL ART. 95 and the work itself is so thoroughly feminine, that we sincerely trust some-thing of the same kind will be attempted in this country. We have a fancy.
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